Unrest: From Bed to the Academy Awards Shortlist

Come join activist and award-winning filmmaker Jen Brea for a private screening of her documentary, Unrest. Hear her extraordinary tale of taking on gender discrimination in the healthcare industry and catalyzing the global movement of #MissingMillions. And be inspired to activate your own power-of-one through a salon-style discussion of Jen’s film and her pioneering leadership with #MEAction. Jennifer is twenty-eight-years-old, working on her Ph.D. at Harvard, and months away from marrying the love of her life when a mysterious fever leaves her bedridden. When doctors tell her it’s “all in her head,” she picks up her camera as an act of defiance and brings us into a hidden world of millions that medicine abandoned. In this story of love and loss, newlyweds Jennifer and Omar search for answers as they face unexpected obstacles with great heart. Often confined by her illness to the private space of her bed, Jennifer connects with others around the globe. Like a modern-day Odysseus, she travels by Skype into a forgotten community, crafting intimate portraits of four other families suffering similarly. Jennifer Brea’s wonderfully honest and humane portrayal asks us to rethink the stigma around an illness that affects millions. Unrest is a vulnerable and eloquent personal documentary that is sure to hit closer to home than many could imagine.